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Exodus 1:10-12
Lexham English Bible
Exodus 1:10-12
Lexham English Bible
10 Come, we must deal shrewdly with them, lest they become many, and when war happens, they also will join our enemies and will fight against us and go up from the land.” 11 And they appointed commanders of forced labor over them in order to oppress them with their forced labor,[a] and they built storage cities for Pharaoh—Pithom and Rameses. 12 And as he oppressed them, so they became many, and so they spread out, and the Egyptians were afraid because of the presence of the Israelites.[b]
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- Exodus 1:11 Literally “burdens” or “burdensome labor”
- Exodus 1:12 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
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